Resolushuns
I’ve never been one for New Year resolutions. The motivation behind them never lasts. I’ve always thought that if you really want to change in some way, don’t do it when everyone else is doing […]
Year: 2018
New Fears Resolutions
The list I am compiling for my New Year’s resolutions Is short and sharp and focused and succinct: I vow as I negotiate toward policy solutions, I’ll never be portrayed as one who blinked. My […]
New Year’s Traditions From Around the World
In Italy, they throw old dishes and glasses out their windows. In Latin countries, women wear yellow underwear for good luck and red for success in love. In America, people blow noisemakers and pretend to […]
Resolved: No New Year’s Resolutions
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because failing is a terrible way to start a new year. If you’re going to make a major life change, it’s usually best to do it gradually. A […]
How To Cheer Up a Sad Poem
It is one of the most difficult problems of aesthetic philosophy: What do we mean when we say that a song or poem is sad? I’ve read Aristotle, Kant, Croce–Benedetto, not Jim–all the big names. […]
Trump Visited By Ghosts Of Anti-Communists Past
He was about to slumber, alone in the White House on this winter’s Christmas Eve. Melania and the boys were in Mar-A-Lago. Congress and a quarter of the Federal workforce was shut down. The few […]
Turtle Necks
Friday, December 28, 2018 Today I am grateful for turtle necks. . . not turkey necks which I seem to have instead. I just realized it’s been five days since I’ve graced you with a […]
New Years Resolution
Holidays are almost over. Thanksgiving’s leftover turkey is all gone. Christmas presents have been purchased, opened (returned?) and the Christmas tree has dried out and is ready to be discarded. So, one day left, New […]
“Songs of Circumcision” Brings Christian, Jewish Men Together at New Year’s
BROOKLINE, Mass. The population of this near suburb of Boston is disproportionately Jewish now, but it is also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, the nation’s only Roman Catholic President. “In many ways, this is the […]